1. |
Crude Cry
01:56
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2. |
Bloody New Linoleum
03:46
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I’ve got these echoes scenes passing by in my dreams
echoes of things aren’t what they might seem
with all these echoes echoes echoes
whispering let go let go let go
this haunting ground I walk alone in
with shattered glass across the flooring
it’s not enough when I say goodbye
it’s not enough when she says she lied
it’s not enough to know the truth
cause it stings and it burns when everything’s turning
and it sucks and it cuts deep without warning
I cannot wake to this every morning
so drop me off around the next corner
now
I know what I never knew before
now
I know better than to come knocking on your door
I’m knocked out
is it true this was never really love
and you knew before I gave it up
you slew my last innocent dove
guess it’s true you never loved
yeah I never loved you
I never loved
I will never love
I’ve got the visions of strings fraying at the seams
visions of things aren’t what they might seem
with all the visions visions visions
screaming give in give in give in
this cemetery cold and lonely
until my grave is filled and holy
it gets better when you don’t try
it gets better only after you die
it gets better now I’ve said goodbye
cause it stings and it burns your heart’s still sober
and it sucks when you cut and the ice water’s colder
now
I know what I should have known before
now
I know better on my linoleum floor
I bleed out
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3. |
Alone
02:04
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When I think back to when I was very young
I never thought that I would be so blessed
But now my darkness rises now it comes
I feel it burn a hole right through my chest
There is nothing brand new under the sun
I wonder why I even bothered waking up
There is nothing for me here
There never will be
Alone
Forever I remain
Everything will stay the same
Without me
Without a home
Without a name
Upon this earth I bear my shame
Oh the guilt
Crushing me
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4. |
Blackened Blue
02:24
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Love will never conquer
As long as shame stands in the way
My love goes out to those
Who are cut deep and bleeding out
What hopelessness brought you there
The same as mine I fear
Lost searching for a purpose
Filled endlessly with care
Never to be returned
If only kindness could exist
Without the fear of failure
If only it would rain
And wash away the pain
That love will never conquer
As long as shame stands in the way
The death of a father
The rejection of a lover
I’m crying out for a savior
That I won’t die in vain
A tender heart thrown and shattered
Like a monster slain
Beaten, torn and battered
Never to feel the same
My heart bleeds for you
My heart a blackened blue
It is sad but it is true
I believe it’s safe to say
That love will never conquer
As long as shame stands in the way
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5. |
Lifeline
01:30
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You threw me that lifeline
But all I can remember
Are all of my mistakes
With these words of love
With these hands of hate
All I can think of is what can I create
Something special for the lovers
Something angry for the hateful
Anything but this handful
Of empty promises
And broken tokens of
All my failures to come
And they will come
With the rising tide
With the setting sun
They come
And I must choose
What am I to do
With all this pain
All on my own
Alone
You gave me so much time
But for all my attempts to take
I left everything to waste
I spoke hateful words
In love my hands I worked
And I
Slipped away
I let my crisis spin me
In a mighty whirlwind down
Down
And I
Was stripped of all I held dear
And now
I am a beggar for your ear
To hear my cry
All I wish
Is to be
What we knew I could always be
Someone to love you and hold you near
Someone to shut out all the fear
To keep that light lit and burning brightly
To fill your desires and keep the nightmares at bay
Out of sight and out mind
All I need is a little more time
Just a little more
Give me a little bit more time
Time
Take me back
Please bring me home
For all that I still lack
Please just bring me home
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6. |
Acrimony
01:30
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I would set the earth ablaze for you
I would see the flowers bloom for you
From animosity to ocean view
I would set a fire to burn down the world
For you
To free you from the pain this life brings
To free you from the coldest winter’s sting
To see you breathe in the fresh air of spring
To hear your beautiful voice once more sing
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7. |
Bones
02:28
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Passing through the winter in the wild
Casting down the stars with a bird trap smile
Laughing as they fall
Frightened by the silence in a bathroom stall
Lying in the face of the sinner
That’s twenty minutes you'll never get back
Take me back
With your voice
The last sound I'm longing to hear
Bring me back
Surround me with fear
Bring me back
Have your way
With my bones
Take me home
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8. |
Lump Over Head
02:01
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Some people go
And never break a bone
Live their whole lives safe and sound
Some people know
But never sell their soul
Dead inside, they never make a sound
Some people show
Their trees how tall they grow
But I see their fallen leaves upon the ground
Nothing is ever as it seems
We break apart at the seams when the pain this world brings comes crashing down around
Like fallen leaves, we were dead before our feet ever even hit the ground
Running won’t save us now, it’s too late to figure out how to remain safe and sound
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9. |
Deep Blue Sky
02:35
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Sitting with the sun and the shadows
Oh how they grow with the light and fade into the night
I am dying by the hour
I can feel my waning power
In my flesh in my bones
My tomb has become my home
I just need you to see
The world through my tainted eyes
I just don’t want you to be
Too surprised at what you find
When you look at the world through my enlightened eyes
I am staring into the deep blue sky
I’ll be standing among the stars tonight
I am pointed straight towards the sun
Until the end of the day since it had begun
I sit and smoke and think of my lost love
Oh how it makes feel so damn lonesome
And I think of the girl I am holding on to
I’m holding out for you babe in hopes that one day our love will bloom
Oh baby don’t you dare ever leave me
Oh baby don’t you go where I can’t be
Oh baby please don’t ever leave me
Oh baby please don’t go where I cannot be
I am dying by the hour
I am staring into the deep blue sky
I am dying by the hour
I’ll be standing among the stars tonight
I am dying without your light
Come let me see the world through your blue green eyes
Baby come float away with me
Baby come waste away with me
Come and stare into the deep blue sky
Sitting with the sun and the shadows
Come stand among the stars with me tonight
Hand in hand together let our love grow
Don’t let me go don’t let me die
Tonight is our night
Tonight
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10. |
Chemicals
02:10
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With bloodshot eyes I walk the road
The road I walk so dead and cold
With every step I lose control
Fears and thoughts I no longer hold
In my blood stained hands I sold my soul
For just one more night to walk alone
Just one more street then I’ll be home
To fill my brain with chemicals
I will never learn to hold my own
The seeds of despair are so deeply sown
Within my skin, my flesh and bones
I will never feel fully alone
As long as I keep my habits close
Up and up and away, away
I know why I'm down and out for the count
I feel like I am drowning now
I know I can’t keep going about
The ways I've been going about
My life I lead is far from safe and sound
I need a brand new way figure things out
I need to feel my feet on the ground
I know I need a brand new way to live
Please someone show me how
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11. |
Beatvox
00:32
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12. |
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There is something just beneath the skin
Just waiting to begin
To pick up all the broken pieces
And put them back together again
Let it out
Let it take control
Let it fix our fractured world
Light that match and let it burn
Until it flickers, fountains, and fades
And then do it again
And again
Hope
There is always hope
As long as there is a fire burning somewhere in this darkness
We have hope
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13. |
Codename 47
01:54
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The sole becoming
The soul unraveling
I feel like I like to think
About your lovely eyes
About your yellow dress
Those blue green eyes
Pressed against your chest
I feel I need to sink
Into your bones
Into your flesh
Inside your home
Make me one with your skin
Layers so thin
You don’t even oddly know
I do not want this
I did not want this
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14. |
Bottleneck
02:34
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Every kind of flavor
Blends and fades
This bitter taste
Is all that remains
Sour metal
The devil comes late
Lonely tears
Caught on tape
No apologies
No focus
Let the noise be your god
It's not what you feel it's how you breathe
The young mistress climbs to her feet
Her lonely screams will set you free
Crying and crawling
I fall over myself
Looking forward to
Bright and dark and blue
Nothing picks me up
Nothing can touch
The way you make me
The way I maybe want you to
It's been two years too long
I know your testing our fortitude
But I won’t carry this
No, I won’t carry this alone
Give it all or give it up
Level-headed, I'm left for dead
It's been so long since I held your arm
But this won't pass
In the blink of an eye
From the sky rains burning pages
Fail to hide all that’s bruised
Bloodstained purple sheets
Pulled up to her throat
All these cuts
Were never meant to exist
All the hope
In her ashen hair
Crumbles with the sickness
Of human behavior
Bottleneck
Relentless
The pressure of existence
After flesh is rotting in a grave
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15. |
Empty Hands
02:02
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Life is just a fable
Told through the trails of mayflies
Turning the tables
Turning towards light that shies
Swing until the sunlight
Drips like blood from vampire teeth
Sing songs so bright
Slips from your lips
Lying through your teeth
Where the horizon and god meet
Where you will find me
At twilight until midnight
Speaking underneath starlight
Gazing with my blazing eyelids
Hazy shades of blue and grays in midsummer nights
Middle of the vision shifter
The gift of power
The shift of sands
To lift up our empty hands
Filthy open palms pointed straight towards the sun
Dirty bare feet standing firmly on the earth we so desperately desire to make holy
All over
It was all just a show
For all of the late night party goers
Date night, hardly dare to show up
After all you put me through
You think I would do this for you
Baby eyes, baby cries
Maybe, as time flies by, next time you won’t lie
I hold a grudge against
I paint a yellow fence black
Cry rivers over anthills
Dancing around the working mill
Prancing through daisies
Praying to fairies
To grant me three wishes
Humanity, sanity, and missed chances
All those ugly glances
Cut deep like sharp lances
Knife blade grinding
Life made mindlessly
Minding my own business
Finding nothing
Mark my words
Mark it on your calendars
The end of days is nigh
But we won’t go down without a fight
Although I doubt we’ll outlast the night
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16. |
Introducing Mass
02:09
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When I reached the top
I just couldn’t move
I sat down
I let out
I don’t know how I feel
So strong and strung out
All at once
The earth moved
The rivers swam to a southern groove
The trees swayed
The rocks danced
All the while my mind was in a trance
I fell on my back and started to cry
I don’t know why I couldn’t stop laughing
Here in a hollow meadow
Haunted by a silent stream
If only my dreams could wake me
Could replace me with something big enough to break free
If only my size could save me
No more freezing bleeding skin
No more choking silent screams
Before the sun sets
Before the shadows close in
There's no feeling in being too pitiful to break free
There is no feeling in me
I'm wide awake
There is nothing left to take
Nothing I can break into
Nothing to save me from this fear that keeps me
In control of an empty room
Down in this hole that I dug myself into
I don’t want help
I need truth
I need space from you
From your conflicting views
From you
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17. |
Listen To Me
01:52
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Listen to me
I am not your friend
Come the final end
We shall see who is left standing
Listen to me
I am not your lover
Run for cover
The storm is raging
The waves are breaking
The castles are coming crashing down
In the ocean the kings and queens will drown
Come the final end
We shall see who is still standing
Listen to me
All is over
Torn asunder
Grand halls of wonder
Great walls falling
Angels calling
Demons crawling
Creeping inside of your skin
Seeping through the layers so thin
Let them in
To begin
The final end
Listen to me
It’s coming to an end
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18. |
Ocean Ash
01:45
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Those blue green eyes, so soft and so bright
So eager to return to the sea
Those rose pink lips touched my ear
Whispers so light, so sweet, my eyes shut
My heart turned yellow and green
The sun burns too slow to bring you home
The stars escape the sunset's glow
Your words still ring inside my head
I open my mouth to let them out but keep them safe inside my head
I breathe in smoke
I wish time might choke
I watch the moon rise from the ocean floor
I see colors in the sky that were never there before
Those blue green eyes, so soft and so bright
Bring my body crashing to the floor
A pile of ash, a stain on the floor
A prayer for sameness I pray every night
I pray to god that age might die
That you might stay the same as you were before
When you return from the ocean shore
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19. |
Walk In The Park
01:39
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Babies crying
Dogs barking
I stare at the stars to set me free
They glare from afar straight back at me
Fans cheering
Sirens screaming
I take a walk in the park to find some peace
All I find are fallen leaves amongst the frozen trees
Choirs singing
Children laughing
I am lost forever deep within this maze
Someone please take me away from this dark place
Angels crying
Jesus dying
I found hope but it is so far from here
So far from all that I hold dear
Stalkers creeping
Daughters weeping
Was he too early or is he too late
Are we unholy or is this our fate
The final end
It begins again
No matter where it ends
We will pay for our sins
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20. |
Rum Pit
00:55
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Mike Braudrick Frisco, Texas
Hi, I'm Mike. I express myself - my thoughts, emotions, and experiences - through my music. It is my joy and passion. Thanks for listening.
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